Norfolk Southern NSC

Railroads, Industrials

$329.99

−2.44%

Market cap: $74.1B
PE: 28.2×; 10y median 20.5×
Forward PE: 24.2×; 10y median 20.2×
Price to sales: 5.9×
EV/EBIT: 20.7×
Revenue, 12 months: $12.5B; +3% on a year ago
Net margin: 21.0%
Free cash flow yield: 2.2%

Norfolk Southern trades at 28.2× trailing earnings, pricier than 84% of the last ten years. Revenue was $12.5B over the last twelve months, up 3% on a year earlier with a 21% net margin.

Charts

Financials

Income statement for NSC, by quarter
Income statement	Q3 FY23	Q4 FY23	Q1 FY24	Q2 FY24	Q3 FY24	Q4 FY24	Q1 FY25	Q2 FY25	Q3 FY25	Q4 FY25	Q1 FY26	Q2 FY26
	$3B−11%	$3.1B−5%	$3B−4%	$3B+2%	$3.1B+3%	$3B−2%	$3B−0%	$3.1B+2%	$3.1B+2%	$3B−2%	$3B+0%	$3.5B+11%
	$756M−41%	$808M−32%	$213M−70%	$1.1B+96%	$1.6B+111%	$1.1B+40%	$1.1B+438%	$1.2B+4%	$1.1B−31%	$937M−17%	$877M−24%	$1.1B−4%
Interest expense	$182M+3%	$195M+10%	$201M+15%	$204M+20%	$203M+12%	$199M+2%	$199M−1%	$201M−2%	$197M−3%	$195M−2%	$197M−1%	$197M−2%
Pre-tax income	$614M−44%	$651M−37%	$30M−95%	$944M+104%	$1.4B+132%	$928M+43%	$978M+3160%	$998M+6%	$924M−35%	$765M−18%	$715M−27%	$959M−4%
	$136M+1%	$124M−50%	−$23M	$207M+94%	$328M+141%	$195M+57%	$228M	$230M+11%	$213M−35%	$121M−38%	$168M−26%	$225M−2%
Net income	$478M−50%	$527M−33%	$53M−89%	$737M+107%	$1.1B+130%	$733M+39%	$750M+1315%	$768M+4%	$711M−35%	$644M−12%	$547M−27%	$734M−4%
	$2.10−49%	$2.33−32%	$0.23−89%	$3.25+108%	$4.85+131%	$3.23+39%	$3.31+1339%	$3.41+5%	$3.16−35%	$2.86−12%	$2.43−27%	$3.26−4%
	227M−3%	226.2M−2%	226.2M−1%	226.4M−1%	226.5M−0%	226.7M+0%	226.5M+0%	225.2M−1%	224.7M−1%	224.7M−1%	225M−1%	225M−0%

EPS, diluted: Q4 FY08 and Q4 FY09: quarter's net income to common over its shares, to the cent, the shares from counts implied by EPS, near the year's EPS less the nine months'. 7 periods, Q1 FY10 to Q4 FY25: quarter's net income to common over its shares, to the cent.

Diluted shares: 8 periods, Q2 FY08 to Q4 FY15: not printed by the filing, worked out from its own lines. 14 periods, Q4 FY09 to Q4 FY25: share-days: the 12-month average less the 9-month, weighted by days.

From each company's 10-Q and 10-K filings, the newest version of each figure. Quarters are as filed (a fourth quarter is the year less its first nine months), fiscal years as the 10-K prints them, restated where a later 10-K restated them, and balance sheet lines as of the period's end. A quarter whose 10-Q isn't filed yet is from the company's results release. Growth is on the same period a year earlier. A dash is a period with no figure for the line: the filing doesn't print it, or it hasn't been read yet.

Estimates

Next earnings report: Feb 4, 2027.

Quarter	Revenue	Range	EPS	Range	Analysts
Q3 FY26	$3.5B	$3.4B to $3.5B	$3.46	$3.39 to $3.53	12
Q4 FY26	$3.5B	$3.4B to $3.5B	$3.27	$3.16 to $3.37	11
Q1 FY27	$3.3B	$3.2B to $3.4B	$3.15	$3.07 to $3.23	7
Q2 FY27	$3.6B	$3.5B to $3.7B	$3.82	$3.71 to $3.92	2
Q3 FY27	$3.7B	$3.6B to $3.7B	$3.94	$3.83 to $4.04	2
Q4 FY27	$3.6B	$3.5B to $3.6B	$3.68	$3.58 to $3.78	5
Q1 FY28	$3.5B	$3.4B to $3.6B	$3.45	$3.35 to $3.54	6
Q2 FY28	$3.8B	$3.7B to $3.9B	$4.20	$4.08 to $4.30	5

Peers

Companies in Railroads nearest Norfolk Southern's size, closest first.

Company	Market cap	PE	Its 10y median PE	Fwd PE	P/S	Revenue growth	Net margin
NSCNorfolk Southern	$74.1B	28.2×	20.5×	24.2×	5.9×	+3%	21.0%
CSXCSX	$94.1B	29.4×	19.1×	23.6×	6.5×	+3%	22.2%
WABWestinghouse Air Brake Technologies	$46B	36.6×	30.6×	24.0×	3.8×	+13%	10.6%
UNPUnion Pacific	$174B	22.8×	21.0×	21.5×	6.6×	+7%	28.9%
Peer median	$94.1B	29.4×	21.0×	23.6×	6.5×	+7%	22.2%